Sanskrit dictionary (beta)

Every entry for a word in Apte, Monier-Williams, Macdonell and the Dhātupāṭha, with their abbreviations spelled out, and an analysis of its forms.

Results for इव

3 dictionaries · exact headword

Apte Dictionary

V. S. Apte, The Practical Sanskrit–English Dictionary

इवivaind.Like, as (showing उपमा or comparison); वागर्थाविव संपृक्तौ R.1.1; वैनतेय इव विनतानन्दनः K.5.
1. Like, as (showing उपमा or comparison); वागर्थाविव संपृक्तौ R.1.1; वैनतेय इव विनतानन्दनः K.5.
2. As if, as it were (denoting उत्प्रेक्षा); पश्यामीव पिनाकिनम् Ś.1.6. लिम्पतीव तमोङ्गानि वर्षतीवाञ्जनं नभः Mk.1.34.
3. Little, somewhat, perhaps; कडार इवायम् G. M.
4. (Added to interrogative words), 'Possibly', 'I should like to know', 'indeed'; विना सीतादेव्या किमिव हि न दुःखं रघुपतेः Ubbayapada (Parasmaipada and Atmanepada)6.3; क इव of what sort, what like; क इव कालः Māl.2; what a long time has elapsed.
Derived forms and compounds
- -इव is frequently used with adverbs, especially with such as involve restriction, by way of emphasis in the sense of even or just so, just, exactly, quite, indeed, very; मुहूर्तमिव but for a moment; किंचिदिव just a little bit; so ईषदिव, नाचिरादिव, etc.; (इव is considered by grammarians as forming compounds with the word after which it stands; इवेन समासो विभक्त्यलोपश्च Vārt. on ParasmaipadaII.4.71. Sk.).
- -उपमा Feminine A simile in which इव is used. Bk.1.41 is given as an illustration of इवोपमा.
Source: Apte

Monier-Williams

Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit–English Dictionary

इवivaind. (fr. pronominal base 3. इ), like, in the same manner as (in this sense = यथा, and used correlatively to…
1. indeclinable (from pronominal base 3. इ), like, in the same manner as (in this sense Equivalent to यथा, and used correlatively to तथा)
2. indeclinable as it were, as if (exempli gratia, 'for example' पथे*व, as if on a path)
3. indeclinable in a certain manner, in some measure, a little, perhaps (in qualification or mitigation of a strong assertion)
4. indeclinable nearly, almost, about (exempli gratia, 'for example' मुहूर्तम् इव, almost an hour)
5. indeclinable so, just so, just, exactly, indeed, very (especially after words which involve some restriction exempli gratia, 'for example' ईषद् इव, just a little; किंचिद् इव, just a little bit: and after a negation exempli gratia, 'for example' न चिराद् इव, very soon). इव is connected vaguely, and somewhat pleonastically, with an interrogative pronoun or adverb (exempli gratia, 'for example' किम् इव, what? कथम् इव, how could that possibly be? क्वे*व, where, I should like to know?) . In the Pada पद texts of the R2ig ऋग्, Yajur यजुर्, and Atharva अथर्व - veda वेद, and by native grammarians, इव is considered to be enclitic, and therefore compounded with the word after which it stands fg-veda AV. etc. etc.
Source: Monier-Williams

Macdonell

A. A. Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary

इवiva[i-va] (encl.) ad. like, as it were; about, al most; somewhat; indeed (with inter.): often merely…

[i-va] (encliti) adverb, -ial, -ially like, as it were; about, al most; somewhat; indeed (with inter.): often merely emphatic=only, just, quite; or ren dered by stress.

Source: Macdonell

Analysis (Beta) · इव

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